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Allegra Kirkland

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Allegra Kirkland is a New York-based reporter for Talking Points Memo. She previously worked on The Nation’s web team and as the associate managing editor for AlterNet. Follow her on Twitter @allegrakirkland.

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Bail was set at $1 million for comedian Bill Cosby, who was arraigned Wednesday afternoon at a courthouse in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania on felony sexual assault charges. After his arraignment, Cosby was taken to a nearby police precinct where he was fingerprinted and had a mugshot taken.

The Montgomery, Pennsylvania District Attorney's office on Wednesday charged Bill Cosby with aggravated indecent assault—a felony—for sexually abusing a woman at his home in Cheltenham Township. These are the first criminal charges brought against the comedian.

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told an Iowa radio host last week that he never offered support to former reality TV star Josh Duggar after it was revealed that he sexually abused his sisters as a teenager. Duggar’s December 23 remarks to conservative radio host Simon Conway were first flagged and clipped by Buzzfeed News.

The University of California (UC) system has announced that it will no longer invest in private prison companies and divested the $25 million it held in GEO Group Inc, G4S, and the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), according to the Los Angeles Times.

Hours after telling the Associated Press and Washington Post that he expected to make significant changes to his campaign team, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson completely reversed course. In a statement obtained by Politico Wednesday, Carson said he has “100 percent confidence in my campaign team.”

After a Washington Post cartoonist depicted Sen. Ted Cruz’s daughters as props in his presidential campaign, the Texas senator fired back with a cartoon of his own. In a hastily Photoshopped drawing posted on Twitter Wednesday, the Post and New York Times appear as the “lapdogs” for his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.

Newly-elected Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin (R) reversed his Democratic predecessor’s executive order restoring voting rights to some 140,000 former felons late Tuesday night, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.